{"id":974554,"date":"2022-02-03T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/buhari-to-depart-abuja-today-for-au-summit-in-addis-ababa\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:43:26","slug":"buhari-to-depart-abuja-today-for-au-summit-in-addis-ababa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/buhari-to-depart-abuja-today-for-au-summit-in-addis-ababa\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari To Depart Abuja Today For AU Summit In Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in France for an official visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> will leave Abuja today (Thursday) for a four-day trip to Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n

In Addis Ababa, the president is set to attend the 35th ordinary session of the African Union heads of state and government.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on Wednesday, presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina said the president will work with other African leaders to find answers to the continent\u2019s political, economic, and social difficulties.<\/p>\n

The summit will focus on \u2018Building Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent: Strengthen Agriculture, Accelerate Human Capital, Social, and Economic Development,\u2019 according to Adesina.<\/p>\n

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Buhari is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with some African leaders on improving trade relations, partnering to tackle security challenges and collaborations with multilateral institutions for sustainable development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president will be accompanied by the minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; minister of health, Dr Osagie Ehanire; minister of agriculture, Mohammed Abubakar; and minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umar Farouk,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe national security adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno, and director general of the national intelligence agency (NIA), Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, will also join the president at the AU meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in France for an official visit. President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today (Thursday) for a four-day trip to Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa. In Addis Ababa, the president is set to attend the 35th ordinary session of the African Union heads of state and government. In a statement released on Wednesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}